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Altogether 5,407 Bru families, displaced from Mizoram, have been living in refugee camps of Tripura for the past 21 years. After their return, Bru families would be settled in three districts - Kolasib, Lunglei and Mamit - in western Mizoram where they used to live. GUWAHATI: The Mizoram Bru Displaced People's Forum (MBDPF) on Monday pulled out of the July 3 quadrilateral agreement between it, the Centre and the Tripura and Mizoram governments on the respatriation of Bru refugees. "We have come out of the treaty signed in Delhi because of protests by people living in the camps against the MBDPF leadership. Ethnic flare-up in Mizoram in 1997 forced the Brus to flee from their homes to neighbouring Tripura and they were housed in six make-shift refugee camps located in Kanchanpur and Panisagar sub-divisions of North Tripura district..